![[Playlist] A Meaty Vacationing Mixture](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/4052057_lg.jpg)
Hello friends and others. I am off on a mini-vacation tomorrow (see above picture). When we get back from Mexico the plan is to finish packing up our house and move to Vancouver...finally. Life will be pretty wild over the next few weeks so I highly doubt that there will be much new music posted up here. As a present, here is a playlist that I will be listening to while sitting by the pool, eating tacos, drinking chi-chi's and playing some serious Scrabble. Till then... 1. Dirty Gold - California Sunrise [...]
Recorded 1959. Available on the Wilbert Harrison album, Kansas City - His Legendary Golden Classics': Amazon

Beltone Recording, New York City Opened in the 1940's as a commercial and jingle house, Beltone Recording became a hotspot for King Records artists like James Brown , who were passing through town starting in the early 1950's. Later, it became a division of Beltone Records, which was in turn distributed by King out of Cincinnati. Figuring it could be a hitmaker for his own artists, owner Les Cahan hired Joe Rene as his A and R man and started producing his own hits. Among them, Bobby Lewis ' Tossin' and Turnin' [...]

Kai & Uncle It's my wonderful nephew's birthday today - Kai turns six. He's an amazing kid with a big heart, though of course uncle privileges come with bias. His mom's a working musician - he already has perfect pitch and stays on-key better than most vocalists I've backed, so I'm extremely proud of him. He's penciled in for guitar lessons, right after piano. Kai shares a birthday with Wilbert (Kansas City) Harrison, Thom Mooney of The Nazz and Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett. Here's wishing a happy birthday to them all and an especially great day for my [...]

Last week we heard a couple of trucker songs played by west coast hippies. Today we'll listen to the genuine article, and some cover versions it spawned. In 1954 Terry Fell recorded this, the first version of the second most popular truck driving song ever (third maybe if you count "Convoy"). The first, would be Dave Dudley's "Six Days On The Road," [...]

Sorry if things have been quiet here in Fluville. Between trying to make a living, being a dad and coaching a little league team, my posts have fallen by the wayside. I do hope you all understand. First up today, it's Wilbert Harrison with the first hit recording of Leiber and Stoller's "Kansas City," and it's B-Side, both featuring the searing guitar stylings of "Wild" Jimmy Spruill. Then, Harrison's own composition "Let's Stick Together," a plea to the "very sacred" institution of marriage. Perhaps Wilbert found this wasn't exactly the case, or maybe he just felt the need to revise [...]